• Celebrates ‘Ten Years of Laureus’ - looking back at some of the highlights of the last ten years, including
  • President Mandela’s appearance at the first Academy meeting
  • Memorable Project Visits, both from the perspective of the Academy Members that visited the projects and the Leaders of the projects visited
• Messages from both the Executive Chairman of Richemont: Johann Rupert and Chairman of Daimler: Dr Dieter Zetsch
• 2009’s hugely successful Breaking the Cycle of Violence Bike Ride, which culminated in the associated report being delivered to both the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
• Transcript from an interview with Morne du Plessis by John Robbie on the impact that he thinks the football World Cup will have on South Africa  and his other experiences of Laureus
• Updates from our Global Partners and National Foundations on their visits and events over the last year
• Layne Beachley announced as the newest member of the Laureus Friends & Ambassadors programme

• The importance of role models and finding inspiration to reach the top
• Project Visit Extra - Laureus World Sports Academy members: Nadia Comaneci in Spain, Sean Fitzpatrick in Hong Kong, Edwin Moses in Israel/Palestine and New York, Hugo Porta in South Africa, Daley Thompson in Moldova and any more...
• Young Sri Lankan project member wins IWC Schaffhausen/Laureus Watch drawing competition
• The opening of a Laureus exhibition at Mercedes-Benz World in Berlin
• Richmond Midnight Basketball hold their first annual fundraiser, the Urban/Suburban Basketball Classic, in partnership with the Laureus Foundation USA
• Ned Wills, director of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, discusses the importance of youth peer leaders as an essential ingredient to successful sport and development projects
• Laureus World Sports Academy member Sebastian Coe describes the inspiration that took him from a school hall to Olympic gold medalist and chairman of the London organising committee of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games
• We ask the Sporting Heros of today who they looked up to once upon a time
• Laureus World Sports Academy member Mike Horn sets sail on his four-year global environmental tour
• Cathy Freeman becomes the newest member of the Laureus World Sports Academy

• Vodafone becomes a new Global Partner
• Boxing champs Wladimir Klitsco and Barry McGuigan Fight For Peace
• Football legend Marcel Desailly visits the first-ever Laureus Project in Ghana
• Academy Chairman Edwin Moses tells us how he believed it’s time for Laureus to send out a clear message: drug abuse in sport cannot and will not be tolerated
• We welcome Mika Häkkinen and Alexi Nemov as Academy Members
• The low-down on the 2008 Laureus World Sports Awards held in Moscow

• Daley Thompson teams up with Jackie Chan to visit tsunami devastated Banda Aceh on a fact-finding mission
• Tsunami relief fund visit by Laureus World Sports Academy member Ian Botham
• Emerson Fittipaldi visits the Fight for Peace project in Brazil
• Edwin Moses, Mark Spitz and Sean Fitzpatrick made a special visit to Hong Kong, to welcome Operation Breakthrough to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation family
• 2005 Laureus World Sports Awards Nominees

• Laureus Foundation Switzerland launched
• Laureus World Sports Academy Members Sir Bobby Charlton and Tony Hawk visit the Spirit of Soccer project in Cambodia
• Academy members Marvin Hagler, Nawal El Moutowakel and Daley Thompson visit the Courir Pour la Vie project in Morocco
• Q&A with Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Academy Member and British Double Paralympics Champion
• Let the Children Play photo essay
• The career of Roger Federer

• Academy member Michael Johnson finds a life-changing experiences on his visit to MYSA, a Laureus Sport for Good Foundation project in Kenya
• The Laureus World Sports Academy meets Nelson Mandella at the Laureus Academy Forum in South Africa
• Marcus Allen, Marcel Desailly and Mike Horn join the Laureus World Sports Academy
• Two new projects in South Africa announced
• Foundaciõn Laureus España is launched.
• Laureus World Sports Awards nominees Barcelona 2007 announced
• Academy member Martina Navratilova visits a Laureus Sport for Good Foundation project in the South Bronx, New York

• Hollywood legend Jackie Chan becomes Hong Kong’s first Laureus Friend and Ambassador
• Academy members Bobby Charlton and Ilie Nastase visit Sarajevo to help save lives and score goals at the Spirit of Soccer Project
• Steve Waugh and Monica Seles join the Laureus World Sports Academy
• His Majesty The King of Spain accepts Nelson Mandela’s personal invitation to be Laureus World Sports Patron 2006
• Laureus World Sports Awards nominees Barcelona 2006 announced
• Projects round-up; reports from a selection of the 39 Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Projects

• Hong Kong Rugby Football Union (HKRFU) and Cathay Pacific Airways Limited make a HK$70,000 donation to Laureus
• The second Laureus World Sports Academy Forum is held at Amby Valley, Sahara Lake City, India
• The Union and Friendship in San Isidro (UASI) personal development project to be launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and funded by Laureus
• Laureus World Sports Awards 2005 nominees
• Q&A with Boris Becker, Morné Du Plessis, Sean Fitzpatrick and Tanni Grey-Thompson

• Fight for Peace director Luke Dowdney honoured with an MBE
• The exciting new global Laureus Friends and Ambassadors initiative gets off to a flying start in South Africa
• Academy members Edwin Moses and John McEnroe help launch the All-Stars' CampUs project in New York project that will boost inner-city education
• After two years, explorer Mike Horn is nearing the end of his arctic circumnavigation
• Winners of the Laureus World Sports Awards 2004
• 8 thoughts on Laureus
• Business for Good - if sport can make a difference in the world around us, why not business too?
• Second International Laureus Youth Camp in Austria
• Olympic flashback - 1984

• Laureus pays tribute to mountaineer and friend, Arne Naess, who died in January
• MYSA project in Kenyan project pushes the boundaries with its coaches
• Project Sozo – a Greek word meaning to heal is launched in South Africa with the support of several Academy Members
• Sick and disabled children in Germany are benefitting from KidSwing, a therapeutic but fun form of rehabilitation
• Can sport help reunite a country torn apart by civil war? Laureus World Sports Academy Members Tony Hawk and Sean Fitzpatrick went to find out
• Laureus World Sports Awards 2004 nominees
• Sports stars and celebrities got together in California recently for the official launch of the USA’s Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
• Project Spotlight: Fight for Peace, Brazil

• Boris Becker and Nawal El Moutawakel are made deputy chairpersons of the Academy
• Coaches from different projects in South Africa come together at a Role Models’ Retreat
• Miguel Indurain to race Cape Town’s Argus Cycle Tour for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
• It's a Goal project is launched at Macclesfield Football Club to combat depression among young men
• Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren goes for €1.7 million at charity auction for the Laureus Foundation
• India hosts the first Laureus World Sports Academy Forum
• Member Spotlight: David Douillet

• Women sporting legends call on the global media to promote women’s sport
• Laureus Sport for Good Foundation supported project Mathare Youth Sports Association in Kenya, is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
• Host country for the Laureus World Sports Awards 2004 is announced
• Street Universe, a new project suported by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation in South Africa shows that the greatest social change happens on the ground.
• The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is boosted by $100,000 rasied in New York from a Cartier sale
• Children from projects from around the world gather in Austria for the first Laureus Sport Camp
• Laureus World Sports Awards 2003 winners
• Project Spotlight: Youth Sport Foyle, Ireland/Northern Ireland and Peres Center, Middle East
• Laureus World Sports Academy legends on the upcoming Rugby World Cup

• How Sport can offer hope and focus for Brazil’s slum dwellers
• John McEnroe joins the Laureus World Sports Academy
• German Foundation ice-sakting project launch - Kick on Ice
• Using sport to help fight child abuse in South Africa
• Hugo Portia leads the launch of the new Sport for Good Foundation in Argentinia
• 2003 Laureus World Sports Awards nominees
• Project Sportlight: Mathare Youth Sports Association
• Coroporate Social Leadership in the luxury market

• How the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is making an impact around the world
• Laureus South Africa Foundation is launched in Johannesburg
• New projects are launched in war-torn Sierra Leone and economically struggling Uruguay
• How sponsor's can combine a social and commercial purpose
• German tennis legends Boris Becker and Michael Stich return to the court
• A special Cartier watch celebrates the 30th anniversary of Emerson Fittipaldi winning his first Formula One championship
• €75,000 is donated to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation at the Paris Motor Show

• Nawal El Moutawakel on how sport can inspire Moroccan women
• Team Laureus compete on the World's largest cylcle race in Sri Lanka
• Academy photos raise €50,000
• New York’s Midnight Basketball League is joined by members of the Laureus World Sports Academy for a star-studded game
• Tennis hero Boris Becker is appointed Chairman of the Laureus Sport for Good German Foundation

How does taking part in a Laureus funded project have an impact on individuals’ behaviour and emotional wellbeing? The Royal Holloway team collected data from different Laureus Sport for Good projects and have published their general findings as a part of this research study.

In July 2008, Laureus hosted our first ever Global Foundation Project Leaders Forum that brought together individuals from across Laureus' key global projects for a three-day planning workshop to determine how best the Foundation can begin supporting its projects in way that go beyond just funding.

This booklet briefly outlines some of the outcomes from these discussions and in particular looks at the essential ingredients needed for a successful sport for development programme. In addition we seek to highlight some of the gaps and challenges faced in understanding the impact of sport on individuals and communities and ensuring quality delivery on the ground.